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The Healthy Navajo K'é Podcast is supported by Diné College, Northern Arizona University, and Arizona Department of Health Services. The podcast shares information and resources on Navajo infant, child, adolescent, maternal and overall family health.
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When Robin Ballard takes a writing course in college, she goes searching for answers about her homeless father and wanders into the secret lives of her relatives as they gradually reveal their personal histories. Set in Nashville and the surrounding rural towns, Poke Sallet Queen and the Family Medicine Wheel offers a look into the superstitions and changes of a middle Tennessee family from the 1920s to the 21st century. Based on novel events, homework...
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White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine is the story of a Bostonian close-knit Jewish working-class family of five sisters and one brother and the impact they and their next generation endured due to the popularization of lobotomy during the 20th century. When Janet Sternburg's grandfather abandoned his family, and her uncle, Bennie, became increasing mentally ill, Sternburg's mother and aunts had to bind together and make crucial decisions...
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Are pharmaceutical drugs making you or your family sick? Do you want to use safe, earth-friendly medicine? Do you know how to effectively use supplements and natural remedies to build optimal health? Sixty-six percent of the U.S. population consults alternative health care providers and over 70% take supplements, but many people don't know how to use these methods effectively. The Green Medicine Chest offers a well organized, easily accessible guide...
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Staying Strong When Illness Strikes: Ten Insights
Love is the most important part of life support. It can have a profound effect on the healing process.
The patients who improve tend to have a strong network of family and friends.
Families need care as well and may need TLC for years to come.
Even when the patient makes a full recovery, families have to deal with loss and grief.
It's important to find others who have...
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According to Dr. Benaroch, to best treat a patient, you sometimes have to treat the patient's family. See this principle in action through a 16-year-old complaining of chronic bronchitis and a 60-year-old found unresponsive with low blood sugar-both of whom have families to help support a doctor's efforts to diagnose and heal.
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Practicing for Practice is a handbook created for resident physicians who are on the threshold of entering practice and in the process of analyzing potential practice sites. The author believes there is sufficient information and enough advisors available on the business aspects, so those are not included. Rather, the emphasis is on the human aspects of choosing a practice and on understanding interpersonal relationships, topics that are extremely...
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A light-hearted, heart-warming account of how one family faced Alzheimer's and how the almost comical events within the secure walls of the nursing home made them realize that humor was the only way through. Michelle Wyatt's mum always joked with the family that if she ever developed Alzheimer's like her own mother-Michelle's grandmother-they should put her in a home and throw away the key. When she did ultimately succumb to the disease, the choice...
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Jnelle Ruscetti has her masters in science and is a physician assistant in family medicine. She has been practicing medicine since 1997 and did her training in Colorado at the Child Health Associate/Physician Assistant Program. She lives near the beach in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she spends her time outside the office participating in an active lifestyle with her husband, Howard, a family medicine physician in Carolina Beach, and their four...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 I was a family medicine doctor candidate, and I was nervous about interviewing for a job. I explained to the head of the hiring committee that I wanted to be a doctor because I had a voracious intellectual curiosity and a pragmatic persistence.
#2 I told them about my years in Paris, teaching in a high school so I could study medicine at the Sorbonne, and how my...
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Red pepper pickles, French pickles and pickled cantaloupes are some of recipes that star in this booklet, prepared by Dr. Jayne & Son Family Medicines. Pickling has made a comeback as chefs embrace seasonal and local food. "How to do Pickling" contains the authentic sauces (like Chow-Chow and chutney) and relishes (like winter and celery) that are at the forefront of this contemporary change in seasonal eating. Published in 1917.
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Though little Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins loves both his father and mother (Creighton Hale and Ann Christy), he wishes that they would stop quarrelling. Overhearing their plans to split up, Wheezer is at first delighted, assuming that a divorce is some sort of present. Learning the truth, he begs his pal Matthew "Stymie" Beard for advice. Stymie suggests that, if Wheezer were to get a bellyache, his folks would forget their differences. Acting upon this,...
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Todd Richardson, MD, is a retired Family Medicine physician, having practiced for thirty six years in Louisville, Kentucky. He developed a keen interest in oriental rugs and began studying and collecting them over forty years ago. Dr. Richardson also has had an abiding interest in medical history since obtaining his BA in History at the University of Louisville. Since that time, he has belonged to textile organizations, given lectures on oriental...
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Prognosis: Poor is a poignant snapshot of one physician's medical training. Frances Southwick, D.O. explores the highs and lows (more often the lows) of the process of becoming a doctor. She delivers colorful detail inside the mind of one trainee, herself, through undergraduate school, medical school and residency. The book focuses most heavily on the capstone of family medicine training: three years of residency in a well-respected Pittsburgh hospital....
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Americans continue to be crippled by obesity and Type 2 diabetes, and the epidemics are destroying lives, the insurance industry, and the entire health care system.
Philip Caravella, M.D., who has practiced family medicine for more than forty years, seeks to reverse the trend by providing easy-to-follow principles that can help resolve serious health problems.
While previous books have focused on diet, obesity, and fitness, they've failed to hit on...
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This book explores the root causes of stress and offers solutions and alternatives to resorting to medications. It discusses multi-faceted aspects of stress: physical, emotional, and spiritual. It examines stresses found in child and parental relationships, societal stress and suicides, and stress due to working conditions and sleep deprivation. It also focuses on food choices and how allergic sensitivities play a part in the development of stress,...
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This is a practical guide to managing patients in an adult primary care setting with the emphasis on the word practical. This guide covers the majority of the underlying causes of the 30 most common presenting complaints in primary care, along with recommended management for common laboratory abnormalities. It also lists those potentially serious diagnoses that should not be missed. This guide also includes additional useful tips from a functional...
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For seasoned medical professionals, new caregivers, or anyone at all who wishes to expand their understanding beyond the basics of first response, A Caregiver's Guide to Wound Care is a thorough and simple-to-use blueprint that details safe, effective, and compassionate practices that promote the healing of wounds.
Family medicine physician and wound care specialist Dr. Jennifer Taylor doesn't just explain different types of treatments, therapies,...
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When it comes to family and Christmas, #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods always looks to the O'Briens for a little holiday magic. For the very driven medical student Caitlyn Winters, catching the bridal bouquet at a Christmas wedding has set off a chain reaction that she's sure is more curse than blessing. Not only has she fallen in love with family medicine resident Noah McIlroy, but an unexpected pregnancy threatens her well-laid...
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Upon graduating from medical school and residency, most doctors find themselves prepared to practice medicine yet unprepared to monetize their knowledge and successfully run their own business. But what if cardiologists, gynecologists, pediatricians, internists, family medicine physicians, and other specialists were able to learn how to maximize their medical degree, develop a winning mindset, and create a successful business template?
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No one likes going to the doctor to get "shots" and 8-year-old April Roberts is no different! Every year she tries something new to get out of them! See how April navigates her doctor's visit this year and what she learns while at the doctor!
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Dr Azjaah Rogers, MD is a graduate of Florida State University College of Medicine. She is pursuing a medical career in the Family Medicine field. Azjaah has always had a passion for both...
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